[Public-List] Factory installed wheel steering

[Gordon Laco]

Now I have to ask.... What does NCIS stand for?

Gord




On 03/10/13 7:49 AM, "Mike Lehman" <sail_505 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Gord
> 
> Don't you love the military...always full of acronyms! Even on NCIS I had a
> hard time figuring out who "secnav" was until I figured out they were
> referring to "Secretary of the Navy".
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ~~~_/)_/)~~ Mike Lehman ~~_/)~~~
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gordon Laco
> Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2013 7:35 AM
> To: Alberg 30 Public List -- open to all
> Subject: Re: [Public-List] Factory installed wheel steering
> 
> CF = Canadian Forces.  It was once the name for our combined Army, Navy and
> Air Force.
> 
> Gord
> 
> On 2013-10-03, at 7:24 AM, Mike Lehman <sail_505 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> what is CF?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> ~~~_/)_/)~~ Mike Lehman ~~_/)~~~
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message----- From: Gordon Laco
>> Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2013 6:58 AM
>> To: Alberg 30 Public List -- open to all
>> Subject: Re: [Public-List] Factory installed wheel steering
>> 
>> Hello friends
>> 
>> John is correct: although the services were amalgamated in '68, we got our
>> distinctive uniforms back in '98, and our name (Royal Canadian Navy) back
>> in 2010. We got the correct officers' curl in our rank stripes back in
>> '11. (Those of you on the eastern half of North America may have heard me
>> shout at my desk in Aug of 2010 when 'RCN' was reinstated)
>> 
>>  All proud bits of tradition and links to our forbearers who served in
>> WWII when the RCN was the third largest navy in the world.
>> 
>> There's a wonderful story about one of our officers being taunted by
>> British officers during that war about ours being a young service, without
>> traditions such as they had....the Battle of Trafalgar, for example.  Our
>> RCN officer replied "we're building our traditions daily: our Trafalgar is
>> The Battle of the Atlantic and we're fighting and winning it now". I think
>> his name was Alan Easton.
>> 
>> Thank you, John
>> 
>> Gord
>> 
>> On 2013-10-03, at 4:13 AM, "John Birch" <Sunstone at cogeco.ca> wrote:
>> 
>>> The CF today has been returned to the RCAF, RCN and Army designations.
>>> Personally, I prefer the return to these designations.
>>> 
>>> Pip pip and all that ; )
>>> 
>>> 
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: <isobar at verizon.net>
>>> To: <public-list at lists.alberg30.org>
>>> Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2013 10:12 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [Public-List] Factory installed wheel steering
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> Gord... How about this?  You can comment on how successfully the RCN
>>>> made the modernization to CF, with the petty officers becoming
>>>> sergeants, commanders to colonels, and donning the elegant green
>>>> uniforms. You can suggest the USN do the same, and wait for the
>>>> approving cheers. You'll be the hit of the evening.
>>>> Bob Kirk (curmudgen)
>>>> p.s. The only time (except for one delivery) I ever drove wheel
>>>> steering was on the Battleship USS Iowa.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On 10/02/13, Gordon Laco wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Thank you Larry
>>>> I've started the job; I reckon the worst of it will be the very tight
>>>> access
>>>> I'll report later.
>>>> I won't be able to work on it this weekend; the USN has invited the RCN
>>>> to a mess dinner commemorating the establishment of their service
>>>> during their revolt. A posse of we Canadian officers are heading down
>>>> Its a fair honour and I'm looking forward to it. I'm struggling for
>>>> something witty to say about the event but am not coming up with
>>>> anything.
>>>> Gord #426 Surprise
>>>> On 2013-10-02, at 8:09 PM, Lawrence Morris <[1]morris.lc at verizon.net>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> I replace cables on my Rhodes bounty II a few years back because I
>>>> broke a cable. I took the one good cable to the rig shop for
>>>> replacements. Went back to the boat to install and discovered that
>>>> there was a 6" difference in length from port to starboard. You guess
>>>> it, back to the rigging shop( a 3hr round trip) for a third cable of
>>>> the correct length. Lesson: measure both side twice and fabricate once.
>>>> I used a piece of string, strung along the path of the cable to get
>>>> this dimension.
>>>>> 
>>>>> While you are at it, check the cheek block sheeve pins. Mine were
>>>> worn 75% through. They are bronze rod of a standard size and are easy
>>>> to replace once you remove the cheek block(hard to do). FYI the
>>>> steering gear was a Edson from the same time period.
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